Cancer patients must not become collateral damage in fight against pandemic

Cancers are going undiagnosed and untreated as the pandemic consumes health care resources, and as patients avoid hospital and clinic waiting rooms.

Health Minister Patty Hajdu's supplementary mandate letter recognizes the broader COVID-19 related barriers to overall health care across Canada and committed to working with provinces and territories to 'expand capacity to deliver virtual health care, critical health and mental health resources and services.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL BALL

March 11, 2021

COVID-19 has created a crisis for Canadian cancer patients, who have faced extraordinary uncertainty —beginning with surgery delays last March that impacted

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